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Challenge #362: Capital Gains Tax when Selling a Home

DataCruncher3
7 - Meteor

Cleaning and transforming the data took most of the time. Otherwise a fun challenge to solve.

 

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lanclot23
7 - Meteor
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amanda_payne
8 - Asteroid
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CammyPhillips
8 - Asteroid
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BSilverblatt
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for the challenge! Here's my solution:

bjkay30
8 - Asteroid
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elena_mazareanu
8 - Asteroid

Solved

Carolyn
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Completed

 

What seems strange to me is how we're using the Capital Gains Exclusion to calculate if the gains are taxable or not, but then for the tax calculation, it's calculated without the CG Exclusion. The chain of logic doesn't make sense to me (which others have called out)

boglarkalipka
8 - Asteroid

solved

karlhansen
9 - Comet
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 For me the challenge wording was confusing, but I finally hacked my way to a matching solution.